Donald Henry Gaskins aka Pee Wee was raped in prison at the age of 20 years by a fellow prisoner - Gaskins then cut through his throat - his first victim. After 1969, he was released from prison, he went through the U.S. Southeast and began his so-called Coastal Kills: He took random hitchhikers and raped and killed them out of pure pleasure. The murders he committed had a six- week time-period. He tried to keep the victims alive as long as possible while he tormented and mutilated them. After his arrest in 1975, he confessed to have murdered in his Coastal Kill killing spree about 60-80 victims.

Gaskins Serious Murders Series

In 1970 he began his self-proclaimed Serious Murders Series. Gaskins began to kill only people he already knew who he wanted to kill for personal reasons. Unlike his Coastal Kills Pee Wee usually shot the victims without torturing them before. The murders he committed had various reasons: Revenge for example, because he was robbed or somebody owed him money, or because he accepted a contract killing for money.

Henry Gaskin : His final arrest

After his criminal accomplice Walter Neeley told the police that Gaskins has murdered several times in the past, he was finally arrested on the 14th of November 1975. After he received his death penalty by the court, it was converted into a life sentence. The reason for this was a change in the law in the State of South Carolina.

The Meanest Man in America

During his life in prison Gaskins began his last murder: On Nov 2nd of September in 1982, Pee Wee killed Tony Cimo on behalf of his fellow inmate Rudolph Tyner from death row with a selfmade bomb. Tyner was given a fake radio with the reason that he can now communicate with other prisoners. "The last thing he [ Tyner ] heard was me laughing," said Gaskins afterwards to the prison police.